HISTORY OF HAIKU 10 haikuists and their works Previous PageChapter 2 Basho Matsuo Basho Matsuo is known as the first great poet in the history of haikai (and haiku). He too, wrote poems using jokes and plays upon words in his early stages, as they were in fashion, but began to attach importance to the role of thought in haikai (especially in hokku) from around 1680. The thought of Tchouang-tseu, philosopher in the 4th century B.C., influenced greatly Basho, and he often quoted the texts of "The Book of master Tchouang" in his hokkus. The thinker Tchouang-tseu denied the artificiality and the utilitarianism, seeing value of intellect low. He asserted that things seemingly useless had the real value, and that it was the right way of life not to go against the natural law. To a leg of a heron Adding a long shank Of a pheasant. Basho This poem parodied the following text in "The Book of master Tchouang": "When you see a long object, you don't have to think that it is too long if being long is the property given by the nature. It is proved by the fact that a duckling, having short legs, will cry if you try to draw them out by force, and that a crane, having long legs, will protest you with tears if you try to cut them with a knife." By playing on purpose in this haiku an act "jointing legs of birds by force" which Tchouang denied, he showed the absurdity of this act and emphasized the powerlessness of the human being's intelligence humorously.

2. Basho's Life basho nowaki shite A banana plant in the autumn gale Tarai ni ame o I listen to the dripping of rain Kiku yo kana Into a basin at night.http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kohl/basho/life.html

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One day in the spring of 1681 a banana tree was being planted alongside a modest hut in a rustic area of Edo, a city now known as Tokyo. It was a gift from a local resident to his teacher of poetry, who had moved into the hut several months earlier. The teacher, a man of thirty-six years of age, was delighted with the gift. He loved the banana plant because it was somewhat like him in the way it stood there. Its large leaves were soft and sensitive and were easily torn when gusty winds blew from the sea. Its flowers were small and unobtrusive; they looked lonesome, as if they knew they could bear no fruit in the cool climate of Japan. Its stalks were long and fresh- looking, yet they were of no practical use. The teacher lived all alone in the hut. On nights when he had no visitor, he would sit quietly and listen to the wind blowing through the banana leaves. The lonely atmosphere would deepen on rainy nights. Rainwater leaking through the roof dripped intermittently into a basin. To the ears of the poet sitting in the dimly lighted room, the sound made a strange harmony with the rustling of the banana leaves outside. Basho nowaki shite A banana plant in the autumn gale - Tarai ni ame o I listen to the dripping of rain Kiku yo kana Into a basin at night.

3. Biography Of Basho Biography of the 17thcentury Japanese poet and selections of his haiku and haibun.http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/5022/bashobio.html

INTRODUCTION BASHO biographyhaikuhaibun BUSON biographyhaiku ISSA biographyhaikuOTHER POETSAny comments or suggestions would be most welcomed. Please feel free to send me an e-mailWith metta, rei fu Sign GuestbookView GuestbookBASHO Basho (bah-shoh), pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa (1644-94), Japanese poet, considered the finest writer of Japanese haiku during the formative years of the genre. Born into a samurai family prominent among nobility, Basho rejected that world and became a wanderer, studying Zen, history, and classical Chinese poetry, living in apparently blissful poverty under a modest patronage and from donations by his many students. From 1667 he lived in Edo (now Tokyo), where he began to compose haiku. The structure of his haiku reflects the simplicity of his meditative life. When he felt the need for solitude, he withdrew to his basho-an , a hut made of plantain leaves ( basho )-hence his pseudonym. Basho infused a mystical quality into much of his verse and attempted to express universal themes through simple natural images, from the harvest moon to the fleas in his cottage. Basho brought to haiku "the Way of Elegance" ( fuga-no-michi ), deepened its Zen influence, and approached poetry itself as a way of life (

4. Basho's Haiku What follows are interpretations of basho s works by three editors and translators, three gentlemen that would seem to have the qualifications for the task;http://www.haikupoetshut.com/basho1.html

What follows are interpretations of Basho's works by three editors and translators, three gentlemen that would seem to have the qualifications for the task; R.H.Blyth, Lucien Stryck, and Peter Beilenson. There are also some comments by a fourth,Kenneth Rexroth. I began putting together this list as a means to clarify, for myself, what this lovely art form is all about. Opinions seem to vary wildly about just what constitutes haiku. There doesn't seem to be any "concrete" answers. Mr. Rexroth points out, however, in the preface to "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese" that "the Japanese language is almost as rich in homonyms and ordinary double meanings as is Chinese" and there are engo , "associated words rising from the same concept,occupy a position between our similes and metaphors...". He further speaks of the kake kotoba , a pivot word employed in two senses, even three on rare occasions. Rexroth makes the statement that "The pivot word shades into the pun, and some Japanese poems have so many puns that they may have two or more quite dissimilar meaning." I have also read that the kigo or "season word" is also a metaphor (there's that word again) for the stages of our lives. I guess my point is, if I have to have one, that an absolute statement as to the correct way to write haiku would be practically impossible. I found some of all three of the following interpretations to my liking. Mr. Beilenson attempts to stick with the 5-7-5 format, occassionally to the poems detriment. Stryck on the other hand seems very Spartan in his translations, and in the book his poems are taken from, "On Love and Barley - Haiku of Basho" one of Basho's poems seems to have two interpretations, it is appended to the list below.

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4/4/2008 12:34:54 PM HomePoetsPoemsLyrics ... SEARCH Matsuo Basho Free Poetry E-Book: 42 poems of Matsuo Basho File Size: 112k File Format: Acrobat Reader To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As". BiographyPoemsQuotationsComments ... Stats One day in the spring of 1681 a banana tree was being planted alongside a modest hut in a rustic area of Edo, a city now known as Tokyo. It was a gift from a local resident to his teacher of poetry, who had moved into the hut several months earlier. The teacher, a man of thirty-six years of age, was .. .. more >>Poems Search in the poems of Matsuo Basho Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: A bee A caterpillar A cicada shell A cool fall night ... Fleas, lice Page: Quotations "Refinement's origin: the remote north country's rice-planting song." Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977). "Clouds now and again give a soul some respite from Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).

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Matsuo Basho

offers 44 very nicely illustrated and annotated excerpts, with choice of four English translators, for The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku no Hosomichi) . Also available here is The Master Haiku Poet Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda, a fine short biography, and a Basho Chronology . These resources have been provided by Prof. Stephen Kohl of the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon.

10. Basho A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. Whether temporary or not, basho gives in his seventeenhttp://www.poetrystore.com/commenta.html

11. Basho -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on basho the supreme Japanese haiku poet, who greatly enriched the 17syllable haiku form and made it an acceptedhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9013602/Basho

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Page 1 of 1 born 1644, Ueno, Iga province, Japan died Nov. 28, 1694, Osaka in full Matsuo Basho , pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa the supreme Japanese haiku poet, who greatly enriched the 17-syllable haiku form and made it an accepted medium of artistic expression. Basho... (75 of 618 words) To read the full article, activate your FREE Trial Commonly Asked Questions About BashoClose Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Basho , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our

Matsuo Bashô: Frog Haiku

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The original Japanese: Furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto Translated by Lafcadio Hearn A lonely pond in age-old stillness sleeps . . . Apart, unstirred by sound or motion . . . till Suddenly into it a lithe frog leaps. Translated by Curtis Hidden Page Into the ancient pond A frog jumps Translated by D.T. Suzuki The old pond; The sound of the water. Translated by R.H. Blyth The sound Of a diving frog. Translated by Kenneth Rexroth Pond, there, still and old! A frog has jumped from the shore. The splash can be heard. Translated by Eli Siegel Old pond and a frog-jump-in water-sound Translated by Harold G. Henderson The old pond, yes, and A frog-jumping-in-the- Translated by G.S. Fraser The ancient pond A frog leaps in The sound of the water. Translated by Donald Keene old pond frog leaping splash Translated by Cid Corman The old pond

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15. HAIKU For PEOPLE The famous verses of such Edoperiod (1600-1868) masters as basho, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa are properly referred to as hokku and must be placed inhttp://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

Search for haiku books: What is Haiku? Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Since early days, there has been confusion between the three related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai. The term hokku literally means "starting verse", and was the first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known as haika. Because the hokku set the tone for the rest of the poetic chain, it enjoyed a privileged position in haikai poetry, and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose a hokku by itself without following up with the rest of the chain. Largely through the efforts of Masaoka Shiki, this independence was formally established in the 1890s through the creation of the term haiku.

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Poet, Guitarist-Composer, Father of the American Raga

'I don't try to follow the masters; I try to ask the same questions they asked.' ROBBIE BASHO 30.Aug.1940-28.Feb.1986 This archives shouldn´t be a stupid data-base. Everything can only be a spot or a scetch -nothing is perfect (or like Buddhism would say:Nothing is ever finished.). I hope it can grow up step by step to open a window into the lifetime and work of Robbie Basho, poet, father of the American Raga and an earlier champion of open tuning techniques and somebody can find something news, sometimes...or has something news to add (I´m always in search of articles, photographs, tapes, .....for the archives) - please contact Blue Moment Arts to add interesting informations or questions about Robbie Basho´s life. To the links below: The 1st will give You more database-informations and the last are a lot of search results and like 12string legend Fred Gerlach would say: Help Yourself..... Please quote this archives, when using materials to make this a living source! of Robbie Basho's death Robbie Basho, nearly forgotten in the music biz for many years, was an eccentric pioneer of the contemporary acoustic guitar (besides

18. Tompkins Square Records Robbie basho released Venus in Cancer in 1969 on the Blue Thumb label. After five albums for the Takoma label in the 60 s, basho had cemented his reputationhttp://www.tompkinssq.com/basho.html

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Read Pitchfork review here Robbie Basho released Venus in Cancer in 1969 on the BlueÊ Thumb label. After five albums for the Takoma label in the 60's,Ê Basho had cemented his reputation alongside John Fahey andÊ Leo Kottke as one of the most brilliant guitarists of his generation. His wide range of musical influences from around theÊ globe set him apart from other blues-based players, incorporating Arabic, Himalayan and Indian themes; Japanese andÊ Chinese scales, and classical and European folk music. All areÊ on magnificent display on this sprawling, spiritually-chargedÊ album.Ê Released on CD for the very first time, the album has beenÊ remastered from the original tapes. The package includes original album artwork and new appreciations from Windham HillÊ label founder Will Ackerman, Basho college friend and fellowÊ Takoma recording artist Max Ochs, German guitarist SteffenÊ Basho-Junghans, and Pete Townshend of The Who.Ê Twenty years since his death in 1986, Basho's legend continues toÊ grow, having strongly influenced a new generation of guitaristsÊ including Jack Rose, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)Ê and James Blackshaw, among many others.Ê

19. Basho's Frogger - "Pataphysical Software Company click anywhere on the game and try again. basho s Frogger was produced as a response to Derek Beaulieu s ((plop)), a manuscript of basho translations.http://www.ubu.com/contemp/hennessy/frogger/basho_frogger.html

If game does not respond to keyboard input, click anywhere on the game and try again. Basho's Frogger was produced as a response to Derek Beaulieu's ((plop)) , a manuscript of Basho translations.

20. Matsuo Basho basho replied, Oh, well, at this very place and produced a haiku. Reference volume IX of the complete works of basho published by Kadokawa Shotenhttp://sunnypad.com/asunnyplace/haiku/basho.htm

Matsuo Basho Basho "In the second year of the Jokyo period (1685) at dawn on the 14th day of the Ninth Month, Basho had a strange dream in which he was caught in a rainstorm and ran into a shrine to take shelter. The priest scolded him and turned him away, but then said he could stay if he could make a haiku that fit the moment. Basho replied, 'Oh, well, at this very place ...' and produced a haiku." Reference: volume IX of the complete works of Basho published by Kadokawa Shoten Matsuo Munefusa, alias Basho (1644-94), was a Japanese poet and writer during the early Edo period. He took his pen name Basho from his basho-an , a hut made of plantain leaves, to where he would withdraw from society for solitude. Born of a weathy family, Basho was a Samurai until the age of 20, at which time he devoted himself to his poetry. Basho was a main figure in the development of haiku, and is considered to have written the most perfect examples of the form. His poetry explores the beauties of nature and are influenced by Zen Buddhism, which lends itself to the meditative solitude sensed in his haiku. He traveled extensively throughout his lifetime. His 1689 five-month journey deep into the country north and west of Edo provided the insight for his most famous work